DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?

Predominant or specific involvement of the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, anus and urethra (the body orifices) has not previously been reported in the literature on delusional parasitosis. Their involvement in the cases reported here is discussed in the context of the Hindu religio-cultural belief sys...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, T.N., Suresh, T.R., Jayaram, Vasantha, Fernandez, M. Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743650
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author Srinivasan, T.N.
Suresh, T.R.
Jayaram, Vasantha
Fernandez, M. Peter
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description Predominant or specific involvement of the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, anus and urethra (the body orifices) has not previously been reported in the literature on delusional parasitosis. Their involvement in the cases reported here is discussed in the context of the Hindu religio-cultural belief system which attaches special significance to these organs in the personal quest for physical, mental and spiritual purity. The involvement of the ears, in particular, appears to be influenced by native healing methods.
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spelling pubmed-29806452011-07-08 DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT? Srinivasan, T.N. Suresh, T.R. Jayaram, Vasantha Fernandez, M. Peter Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Predominant or specific involvement of the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, anus and urethra (the body orifices) has not previously been reported in the literature on delusional parasitosis. Their involvement in the cases reported here is discussed in the context of the Hindu religio-cultural belief system which attaches special significance to these organs in the personal quest for physical, mental and spiritual purity. The involvement of the ears, in particular, appears to be influenced by native healing methods. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2980645/ /pubmed/21743650 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Srinivasan, T.N.
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DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?
title DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?
title_full DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?
title_fullStr DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?
title_full_unstemmed DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?
title_short DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS OF BODY ORIFICES - A CULTURAL VARIANT?
title_sort delusional parasitosis of body orifices - a cultural variant?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743650
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